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ooh Shuttah is going to love the flower darkners

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Poking around the new Spamton Sweepstakes site...in particular, checking the source code of the cat clicking game. And I noticed something peculiar...

Why is the sound for the eye jumpscare linked alongside the regular sounds...?

Gory details under the cut (plus some unused assets 👀).

Digging deeper, it appears the variable which the jumpscare sound gets written to is used in the function "hardReset()", which gets called in four places. I'm not fluent in Javascript, but it seems like these are the cases when it gets run:

on your 100th cat pull (so, every 100 cats?)

as a random 1 in 1001 chance every time a cat is summoned (except the first

under certain conditions when points value changes (in a function not mentioned elsewhere in the script--is that a JS/HTML interplay thing?)

possibly if the clicked element fails to animate??

(someone with actual JS experience please take a second look)

So what does hardReset() do...? Exactly what you'd expect from a thing which uses the face jumpscare sound. Plays the jumpscare sound, zooms this guy towards you from nothing:

...and cues up a short timer which drops you back on the Sweepstakes homepage.

SIDENOTE: Amusingly, the filename for the grinning face is "/assets/images/cat-009.gif", which matches the naming scheme of the used cat images.

Only five out of eight (+ face) tiers of cat are used in the game. 003, 004, and 008 get skipped, but their graphics are still hosted on the website!

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also, SO stoked that I was right about kris_piano_shop being a future shop theme

...I wonder what that says about sevenfour and waitingroom?

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would the plural of Ganondorf be Ganondorves?

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wHYy does battat use the Freedom motif

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...am I the only one who thinks the Weird Valentine from the new UTDR set reads a bit like Papyrus?

Like, it's definitely not 1:1...not as grandiose, a bit more old-fashioned (looking at you, "GOOD BY!"), and of course drenched in weirdly uplifting strangeness...

...but still. The way this Unknown Person™ (wink wink nudge nudge) confidently stumbles through the conversation, joyfully off-kilter with a twist of wit and a hint of earnest bluster...it all feels a tad familiar, doesn't it?

Which is all to say...I wonder if papyrus Got It From Somewhere?

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grandpa smedry as the white rabbit. send post

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man I am getting so much Ye Flask you guys wouldn't even believe it